Re: [BUG?] staging: zram: Add auto loading of module if user opens /dev/zram.

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Konrad,
>
> The above commit (c70bda9 in mainline) doesn't appear to work for me.
> I.e., depmod does not create an entry in modules.devname and hence no
> device node is created on boot.
>
> If I understand correctly, you'd also need to create the correct
> "char-major-<MAJOR>-<MINOR>" alias. But I don't really see how this is
> meant to work as I thought zram only created /dev/zramX type device
> nodes, and not /dev/zram, or am I missing something?

Please just remove it. "devname" is meant to be used for
single-instance devices with a static dev_t, never for things like
zramX.

It will not do anything useful here, it does nothing really without a
statically assigned dev_t, and it should not be used for devices of
this kind anyway.

Thanks,
Kay
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